The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word FRIEZE
I've seen this crossword clue in The Guardian
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More clues leading to the result FRIEZE
- Band going to wall in very cold weather, say?
- On radio, shout by cop with gun provides picture
- Carved strip, cool by the sound of it?
- Sounds like thoroughly cool artwork
- Said ‘Don’t move decoration‘
- Reportedly fix wall decoration
- Call for temporary halt in painting
- Architectural feature‘s lavish, attracting Italian and unknown separately
- Band releases broadcast
- Architectural feature that could leave you cold, we hear
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The straight part
We know that "decoration" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case decoration = frieze.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does FRIEZE mean?
FRIEZE noun- A kind of coarse woolen cloth or stuff with a shaggy or tufted (friezed) nap on one side.
- To make a nap on (cloth); to friz.
- That part of the entablature of an order which is between the architrave and cornice. It is a flat member or face, either uniform or broken by triglyphs, and often enriched with figures and other ornaments of sculpture.
- Any sculptured or richly ornamented band in a building or, by extension, in rich pieces of furniture.
- A banner with a series of pictures.
- To put a frieze on.